Law.com: Myspace and Facebook Privacy Limits Testedin Emotional Distress Suit

June 15, 2007
Filed Under Social Media |

Interesting discussion about a court case seeking discovery.

In that story it states the following about Facebook:

At Facebook, we believe you should have control over your information and who sees it,” the 8-million-member site says on its signup page. “Only your friends and people in your networks can see your profile.”

Both sites’ privacy statements say they do much to ensure that third parties do not obtain information that is posted, but they also say the information may be divulged under court order.

It will be interesting to see what happens in this case. I recently noted that Facebook does not make it a simple one click action to not index your main profile in search engines and I still have not received a professional response regarding any plans to rectify this serious issue. Worse many users would not even know this is an issue at first.

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